Cuisine from the north of China is one of the most popular kinds of food in India. But this is not the case for Southern Chinese cuisine. In fact, in a recent survey, Southern Chinese cuisine was voted one of the least popular styles of cooking in the country. Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent paradox described above? (Answer the question after reading the following paragraph.)

Direction: Read the following short passages and choose the best answers to the questions that follow each passage.

Option A: Southem Chinese cuisine frequently incorporates obscure ingredients that are difficult to locate, while the ingredients necessary to prepare Northern Chinese cuisine are easily found in most Indian grocery stores.

Option B: Immigrants from all parts of China brought their local cuisines with them when they came to India in great numbers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Option C: Northern Chinese cuisine has recently become more popular in India than the Italian cuisine, which for many years was this country’s favourite international food.

Option D: Northern Chinese cuisine is more time consuming and labour intensive to prepare than Southern Chinese cuisine.

Correct Answer

Option: a

Explanation

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